I dated a girl long ago who taught me to make carbonara. It's an excellent comfort food. However, it requires you to have (A) pasta (B) lots of eggs (C) bacon (D) parmesan (E) fuckin' CAPERS so it's not something I'm often in a position of throwing together. Rice cookers are an important part of my life in that you get hot carbs for cheap that are readily available for a couple days at a time. And eggs keep forever. So when I lived in my shithole apartment in North Hollywood I tried making "carbonara" using eggs and rice and parmesan. It was pretty good. Eventually I just simplified it to rice with two fried eggs and parmesan on it. That eventually became rice with two fried eggs and literally any goddamn cheese there is. I have a ricecooker in LA again. And I eat a lot of eggs with parmesan (or havarti, or cheddar) on rice. Don't knock it 'til you try it. Breakfast lunch or dinner. Good with coffee, beer or sparkling water. My local thai restaurant in Seattle recently started serving rice with an egg and pork'n'squid curry as a special. It is also delicious. I rarely have pork'n'squid curry at home, however.
i'm doing a little necromancy here but i ran into a similar discovery when i was in japan and had not a hell of a lot of money if you whisk some eggs and add a couple spoonfuls of soy sauce or ponzu it becomes a divine sauce when poured over and mixed into hot rice - i would add some kimchi or some green onion on top (because a jar of kimchi was about 3 bucks over there) and it would end up being hella filling i would alternate between that and fried-egg-and-kimchi sandwiches for my staple meals and then yakisoba boxes from 7/11 would fill in the gaps
Haven't had a home without a rice cooker since moving out from my parents' place. A similar quick n' easy for me is couple o' eggs, rice and sliced (not diced) tomatoes. I'm feeling mozzarella will be my next addition. Sounds so treif, but so worth a bowl.Rice cookers are an important part of my life in that you get hot carbs for cheap that are readily available for a couple days at a time. And eggs keep forever.
serving rice with an egg and pork'n'squid curry